Shirt-folding table.



P. F. WHALEN & P. J. BURKE. SHIRT FOLDING TABLE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 17, 1914.

1515,75, Patented Jan. 19, 1915,

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PATRICK F. WHALEN AND PATRICK J. BURKE, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SHIRT-FOLDING- TABLE.

Application filed March 17, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PATRICK F. VVHALEN and PATRICK J. BURKE, citizensof the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomahand State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful 1mprovementsin Shirt-Folding Tables, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in shirt-folding tables, and hasfor its object to provide a device of the kind inclicated, which isadapted to receive the body of a shirt and act as a form for folding theshirt after ironing.

A further object is to provide such a table which is equipped with aform which can be readily adjusted to suit the size of the shirt inhand.

We accomplish these objects by means of the structure shown in theaccompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a top plan view of ourcomplete device, showing a folded shirt thereon. Fig. 2 is an edge viewof same. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 1.

Describing the drawing in detail, 1 represents a section of the usuallaundry table which is provided with two pairs of oppositely disposedtransverse slots 3 which are spaced apart a distance required by thedimensions of a folded shirt. Each plate is provided with a facing plate2, one of which, at each side is provided with a scale ff. A guide rail6 which is preferably of a length corresponding to the length of thelargest sized shirt when folded, is secured upon each longitudinal pairof plates, by means of bolts 5 each passing through a slot 3.

7 represents the usual card board placed upon the body of a shirt whichhas been folded upon our improved table. The rails having first beenadjusted laterally in the slots 3 to the width the shirt will occupywhen folded, the shirt will be placed with the front downward and neckband 8 will be adjusted within the recess 15 of the table to prevent itbeing crushed, tne collar but- The Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915..

Serial No. 825,432.

sleeves and lower portion of the shirt will now be folded upon the cardboard, and adjusted to fill the space between the rails. Each of thesides 9 will then be folded in turn from the point limited by itsrespective ra l. This gives a perfect form and a neat finish to thefolded article. The rails are simultaneously adjustable by means of thelongitudinal bar 12 on the bottom of the table, intermediate each pairof longitudinal slots 3, which bar is slidably held in place in thekeepers 10. Upon the lower portion of each bolt 5 is pivoted a bar 11which incllnes rearwardly toward the longitudinal bar 12, each front andrear pair being pivotally secured to said bar 12 upon a pin 16.

At the front end of bar 12 is formed a hand hold 14, by means of whichthe bar may be moved rearwardly to draw the rails toward each other, andby pulling the bar 12 to the front the rails will be separated; and whenthe proper adjustment of the rails has been obtained the said bar 12will be secured in fixed position, by means of the set screw 13, therebyholding the rails 6 from movement in their slots.

The device is adapted for use in shirt factories and in laundries. Byits use, the shirt can be neatly and regularly folded, without the needof measurements or the use of tools or mechanical appliances.

lVe have thus produced an article which is economical in construction,neat in appearance and of great utility in the arts where it isemployed.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A shirt folding table. comprising a table proper having aneck-band-receiving recess formed therein, and a guide rail securedlengthwise at each side of said recess constituting a form in which tofold the shirt.

2. A shirt-folding table comprising a table proper having aneck-bandreceiving recess formed therein, transverse slide-ways at eachside contiguous to said recess and guide rails adjustably secured insaid slide ways.

3. A shirtfolding table comprising a In testimony whereof, We afiix oursignatabie proper having a neck-band-receiving tures in the presence oftWo- Witnesses. recess formed therein, transverse slide-Ways PATRICK F.WHALEN. at each side contiguous to said recess, guide PATRICK J. BURKE.

" rails adjustably secured in said slide Ways Witnesses:

E. EARL FEIKE,

and manually operated means for adjust- Mrs. G. ANDERSON.

ing the guide rails.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

